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Just another WordPress.com siteTue, 03 Jul 2012 07:41:50 +0000hourly1http://wordpress.com/Comment on Post#8 Health Care Reform :A Woman’s Issue by Dr. Catherine DeLorey by gendercultureprofhttps://genderculture.wordpress.com/2012/04/26/post8-health-care-reform-a-womans-issue-by-dr-catherine-delorey/#comment-467
Tue, 03 Jul 2012 07:41:50 +0000http://genderculture.wordpress.com/?p=1660#comment-467Thank you so much for your comments, Catherine. I’m glad you found our blog, which was set up for my students in a course called Gender and Multiculturalism at Purdue University for the Spring 2012. The class is over, but the blog is still active (although slow for the summer). We talked about the ACA as we read your essay, and I hope my students are following these new developments.
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Fri, 29 Jun 2012 21:00:18 +0000http://genderculture.wordpress.com/?p=1660#comment-466Apologies, but I realize that I did not indicate that I am the Dr. Catherine DeLorey of the article . . .
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Fri, 29 Jun 2012 20:58:42 +0000http://genderculture.wordpress.com/?p=1660#comment-465Friends;

I just found this site and am thrilled to see all of your comments here.

All of you have made very insightful and relevant comments.

I don’t think I can add anything at the moment, but if any of you have questions or would like more resources or women’s health advocacy organizations, please let me know and I will attempt to response.

With the supreme court decision regarding the Affordable Care Act, we now must be vigilante and continue to see how we can advocate for all women to not just have good health care, but good health.

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Fri, 15 Jun 2012 04:10:28 +0000http://genderculture.wordpress.com/?p=455#comment-464Ha, I’m glad to do it. That post was for my Gender and Multiculturalism class last semester and I thought that you guys were the perfect blog to do it on. Hell, even on Tumblr I’m still reblogging your things daily, so….you’re welcome!
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Fri, 15 Jun 2012 04:05:21 +0000http://genderculture.wordpress.com/?p=455#comment-463wow. you totally get us. thank you so much! every now & then, I look at the google searches about our sites and this has to be the best, nicest and dearest surprise yet!

we’re just a place to embrace all that there is regarding human bodies, sex & gender and to create a space where expressions coexist on their own and not by devaluing others.

so, thanks. ~arvan

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Sun, 06 May 2012 19:18:05 +0000http://genderculture.wordpress.com/?p=1471#comment-454For more information on the legality and constitutionality of these state-sponsored birth control mandates, read Dorothy Roberts’ Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction and the Meaning of Liberty. Roberts is a prominent legal scholar and expert on these issues. Her book is a classic text that takes the issues presented in this essay and examines them fully within the context of constitutional law and precedent and American history.
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Sun, 06 May 2012 18:36:19 +0000http://genderculture.wordpress.com/?p=1376#comment-453The concern you have expressed, Nicole, is often referred to as “hierarchies of oppression,” when people seem to be in competition to make their oppression seem more profound than others. Participating in comparing these hierarchies often doesn’t get people very far, and go a long way toward limiting solidarity between various groups working toward a common goal. However, I don’t agree that Taylor’s essay is meant to invoke those hierarchies, but rather she seeks to draw attention, in a provocative way, toward the significantly larger numbers of people affected by violence everyday in America that we do not deem worthy of sympathy or notice. But I understand, I am a minority in terms of my interpretation of this essay, and so I appreciate you and Ivy’s points.
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Sun, 06 May 2012 18:28:05 +0000http://genderculture.wordpress.com/?p=1454#comment-452I think this would be a GREAT idea for FACT. Keep me posted if you all do it. I think there should be a social media/viral element to it too. Get it on FB, let the world know how we do things at Purdue! I also love the idea that students of diverse racial, ethnic, gender, and sexual identities as well as various abilities are represented. This campus needs more images of a progressive and inclusive student body, who, I think, get silenced by the mainstream media outlet on this campus: The Exponent.

Thanks for sharing, Nicole.

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Sun, 06 May 2012 18:11:29 +0000http://genderculture.wordpress.com/?p=1343#comment-451Remember, however, there was no “rush” to charge George Zimmerman, and in fact many of the protests involving this case dealt with the fact that the police waited nearly two months to properly investigate this case and eventually charge George Zimmerman. It seemed like a “rush” because of the ways news cycles work and the way most of us became familiar with the case. But it was nearly a month after Trayvon Martin had been murdered that most of the American public knew about the case, and another several weeks after before he was arrested. For his devastated parents, this certainly was no rush. The wheels of justice turn very slowly, if at all, for certain people.
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Fri, 04 May 2012 21:12:24 +0000http://genderculture.wordpress.com/?p=1488#comment-449Sexual drive or lack of sexual outlet cannot be seen as a cause of rape in the military. This argument/question doesn’t work for two reasons. First, it assumes that only men have sexual drives and needs that go unfulfilled while on duty. Since there have yet to be reports of women raping men in these situations, there has to be some other cause other than sexual deprivation that drives military rape, otherwise you assume that women don’t desire sex too, which is false. Second, there is an assumption that rape is the only outlet for these deprivations. Although there are rules against relationships with locals or consensual sex with comrades, why would male soldiers chose to “solve” their sexual frustration with rape? Why not masturbate? If men are willing to violate the rules by raping women they work with to release frustration, why not choose to have an illicit (consensual) affair with a local or with a colleague? It’s all rule-breaking. Wouldn’t something consensual, albeit rule-breaking, be better than rape? So to me, these factors invalidate the proposition that rape is somehow the only way men can manage their sexual frustration while deployed. Rape is never really about sexual needs, it’s always about power at its root.
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